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collectivisme: the ideological system collectivism, in which the means are owned and controlled by people collectively
collectiviste: collectivist
collectivité: community
collembole: springtail, collembolan
coller: to stick (together), to glue; to approach too closely; to be too close; to place; to give; to hand over; to fit well; to suit
coller au cul: to tailgate; to follow (someone) everywhere, to breathe down someone's neck, to stay close to (someone) all the time, to stick to (someone) like glue, like a leech, to dog (someone's) footsteps
coller au train: to tailgate; to follow (someone) everywhere, to breathe down someone's neck, to stay close to (someone) all the time, to stick to (someone) like glue, like a leech, to dog (someone's) footsteps
coller aux basques: to follow everywhere, to stay close to (someone) all the time, to stick to (someone) like glue, like a leech, to dog (someone's) footsteps
coller aux fesses: to follow everywhere, to stay close to (someone) all the time, to stick to (someone) like glue, like a leech, to dog (someone's) footsteps
collerette: ruff; collarette; ring, annulus; flange
collet: collar; snare, noose; cape; neck (of tooth); neck
collet monté: prim, prim and proper, prissy, starchy, stuffy, uptight, strait-laced
collet monté: Medici collar
collet-monté: alternative spelling of collet monté
colletage: collection (act of collecting)
colleter: to wrap round the collar; to collar (grab by the collar)
colleteur: snarer
colletin: jerkin
colleur: sticker, gluer; wallpaper hanger
colleuse: female equivalent of colleur; film splicer (a device for joining two pieces of film)
colley: collie (group of dog breeds)
collier: a necklace, string-shaped jewel worn around the neck; collar (e.g. of a dog); collar (on animals, colored fur around the neck)
collier de perles: pearl necklace (necklace made of pearls)
colligance: connection (especially a chain of connections)
colligatif: colligative
colliger: to collate; to compile
collimage: scrapbooking
collimateur: sight (on a weapon); collimator
collimation: collimation
collinaire: That grows in hilly ground
colline: hill, downs
collinéation: collineation, congruence
collision: collision (an instance of colliding)
collision frontale: head-on collision
collisionnel: collisional
collisionneur: collider
collocation: collocation; shared apartment
collodion: collodion
collophore: collophore
colloque: conference, colloquium; secret or mysterious meeting
colloquer: to converse
colloquer: to lodge someone, to set up someone in a place, to establish, to install
colloïdal: colloidal
colloïdalement: colloidally
colloïde: colloid
colluder: to collude
collusion: collusion
collusoire: collusive
collusoirement: collusively
collutoire: mouthwash (or similar oral medication)
colluvion: colluvium (a loose accumulation of rock and soil debris at the foot of a slope)
collyre: eyewash, collyrium
collège: academy; junior high school; high school, secondary school; college, university
collège classique: classical college
collège électoral: electoral college (body of electors empowered to elect someone to a particular office)
collègue: colleague; friend
collégial: collegial; collegiate
collégialement: collegially
collégialité: collegiality
collégien: a pupil at a collège (junior high school)